Sermon Tone Analysis

Intro

Many Preachers have intros

adversity

shared goals / enemies

What is your best experience with Christian fellowship?

Are you ready to hear

mission trip

service project

church picnic

I am eager to preach!

What do these two have in common, Christians and Soldiers?

first century church

Roman empire / persecution / evangelism

READ SCRIPTURE

Rom 1.8-

Romans

PRAY

S.T.A.R.T.

Solemnly praise and recognize the greatness of our God and Savior connected to the Biblical text being preached

God our Father it is only though Jesus Christ that we can come to you.

We thank you for all these who are here this morning and for those who would be here with us if they had not been now prevented.

We pray for those who are prevented Father not because of physical need but because of a spiritual one.

We pray for all those who are not here today not because they cannot make it but because they do not know you.

We praise you God that this blessed work Paul speaks of is your work, that his harvest is your harvest.

We praise you that this gospel Paul preached to the Romans is also for us, for our loved ones, for our enemies.

Touch upon the subject of corporate sin and confess any shortcomings the body has committed related to the Biblical text to be preached

God we confess to you our sin of complacency, and comfort.

We confess to you our sin of unbelief and in-submission.

We confess our sin of lukewarmness and repent from our lack of zeal.

Ask God to help the body/local church to hear and apply the truths of the Biblical text to be preached

God will you help us, will you forgive us, will you renew and remake us after your own heart oh God.

Impress upon us this day our obligations to you and change our hearts from straining to submission, and from erring to eagerness.

Review and remind the audience of the key related passages to the Biblical text being preached

LORD as we open Your Holy Word to , will you open also our hearts.

Amen

Transition to the opening of the sermon and the Biblical text to be preached

Text

What makes the soldiers in those old war movies so close with each other?

brotherhood

adversity

shared goals / enemies

What is your best experience with Christian fellowship?

potluck

mission trip

service project

church picnic

What do these two have in common, Christians and Soldiers?

first century church

Roman empire / persecution / evangelism

You Christian are in debt

Thankful for them

Are you eager to pay it?

thus far have been prevented

What is hindering you from doing so?

in order that I may reap some harvest among you

Debts Must Be Payed

God is sovergine over all things and therefore we must rest in His time and plans for our lives.

as well as among the rest of the Gentiles.

Romans 13.8

I am under obligation

Debts Must Be Payed

both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

Everyone is in Debt

So I am eager

A Debt One Can Never Repay

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ESVOwe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

​ ESVLove does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

to preach the gospel

Believers should be Eager to Serve God

to you also who are in Rome.

Beware False Eagerness

-EBC Romans

How heartwarming is the apostle’s attitude toward his obligation!

Instead of considering it a burden he must bear, a duty he must carry out, he is “eager” to fulfill it.

-John Stott

The reason these affirmations are so striking is that they are in direct antithesis to the attitude of many in the contemporary church.

People nowadays tend to regard evangelism as an optional extra and consider (if they engage in it) that they are conferring a favour on God; Paul spoke of it as an obligation.

“Obligation to him who died produces obligation to those for whom he died.”

Motivation for evangelism

Synopsis

I THINK Paul might have used these words as his motto.

We had once a Saxon king called Ethelred the Unready.

Here we have an apostle who might be called Paul the Ready.

The Lord Jesus no sooner called to him out of heaven, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?” than he answered, “Who are You, Lord? “ Almost directly after, his question was, “Lord, what will You have me to do?”

He was no soon- er converted than he was ready for holy service and, “straightway, he preached Christ” in the syna- gogues at Damascus.

All through his life, whatever happened to him, he was always ready.

If he had to speak to crowds in the street, he had the fitting word, or if to the elite upon Mars’ Hill, he was ready for the philosophers.

If he talked to the Pharisees, he knew how to address them and when he was brought before the Sanhedrim, and perceived the Pharisaic and Sadducean elements in it; he knew how to avail himself of their mutual jealousies to help his own escape.

Watch him before Felix, before Festus, before Agrippa—he is always ready—and when he came to stand before Nero, God was with him and deliv- ered him out of the mouth of the lion.

If you find him on board ship, he is ready to comfort men in the storm, and when he gets on shore, a shipwrecked prisoner, he is ready to gather sticks to help to make the fires.

At all points he is an all-round man and an all-ready man—always ready to go wherever his Master sends him, and to do whatever his Lord appoints him.

Evangelism arises from a natural response to the grace of God, a concern for those who have yet to hear the good news and a desire to be faithful to the great commission to bring the good news to the ends of the earth.

Evangelism is guided and directed by the Holy Spirit.

Motives for evangelism

In talking at this time about Paul’s readiness, I shall, first, dwell for a little while upon the state of Paul’ s mind, as indicated by his declaration, “I am ready.”

Secondly, I shall show that this state of mind arose from excellent principles.

And, thirdly, I shall point out that this readiness produces admirable results wherever it is to be found.

Recognizing God’s call

I. First, let us consider THE STATE OF PAUL’S MIND which enables him to say, “I am ready.”

(ESV) — 11 for which I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher,